Political Quotes

“I want to thank my colleagues for their work on the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act. To Chairman Pallone, to Chairman Doyle, to Congressman Latta, and everybody that has been involved in this, I think we have come to a really good agreement here, and it will help stop the illegal robocalls; hopefully, all 47.8 billion. Let that number sink in. Last year, in America, 47.8 billion calls were made to all of us, and they were mostly all illegal, and we are going to do our best to stop them. You will be hard-pressed to find a technology that is more personal than your phone; whether it is the phone you carry in your pocket or, for some, a landline at home, and how we communicate on these devices is essential in the way that we connect to one another. Yet that personal connection is being violated by bad actors that have compromised our country's communications networks and who hide their tracks with their own hardware and software. These criminal parties have done significant harm to Americans, both personally and professionally. Those that engage in such illicit behavior should be treated and prosecuted for what they are, criminals. From the outset of our legislative effort to address this problem, I stated we must make a clear distinction between parties that have ill purpose, as opposed to those who do not.…”